DEFEND UTAH
AI & Medicine
We seek to change the current model of medical insurance from one that pays out after you're sick to one that pays out to prevent you from getting sick. This type of model is a drastic change from a reactive insurance model to a proactive one. These types of insurance models lean heavily on preventative care that is data and genetic driven through AI and should be the path for the United States to be the healthiest country in the World. This will require both legislative incentives and politicians to lead this effort. Currently, there are many preventative care models, but still many health insurances offered through companies do not offer preventative insurance companies that understand the value of data and genetic driven preventative care.
Millions of dollars are being invested in medicine to further the advancement of pharmaceutical discoveries, CRISPR, models like Alpha fold, and many other various sectors of the medical industry. These historic advancements in drug discovery have largely been a result of reinvestment in research by leading pharmaceutical companies. Because of the imminent revolution in medicine by AI, government has a renewed responsibility to ensure we change our health industry to reverse the increase of disease and health issues associated with trending data the last 30 plus years.
The following is a domestic policy proposal that can effectively help reverse the reactive application of medical insurance in the United States by passing legislation, policy, and supporting initiatives to incentivize proactive measures for insurance policies and penalize reactive insurance policies. Incentivizing/penalizing insurance will require a different approach to health; it will require implementing incentives that encourage insurance policies to keep us healthy through preventative measures like supplements, vitamins, and nutrients. Ask yourself what an arborist does when a tree is ill or has a disease - they don't find a medication to put on the diseased area, they often will take a soil sample and determine what nutrients the tree is deficient in and then add it to the soil.
Medicine desperately needs a transformation in all aspects. The current driver is big pharma and all medical industries making money based on any means to obtain it - even at the risk or health of the individual. Across all sectors of medicine, the data reflects a serious declination in the average health of a human body. This natural effect has trended over decades and is highlighted by what influences your elected politician by big donors, lobbyists, and their own political Party.
The reward system is a recursive cycle of persuasion through money. From a top-down Congressional perspective, almost everything should be encouraged through legislative persuasion - you incentivize good behavior and penalize harmful behavior. As society ebbs and flows in their moral compass, this legislation might change. It is evident from the data that harm is occurring, and society (collectively) sees this as a prescription for change.
Now, we have a political Parties who control Congress who have been captured by many activists, lobbyists, donors, or those who have time to contribute to their form of change. Unfortunately, it is because the constraints put on the human family (both parents working, inflation, taxes, rearing children), we have an incursion of politicians who are more persuaded by their own careers, status, or financial increase than their own constituents. This MUST change!
To change medical industries motivation to exists, we must change the incentive structure. This means that unbiased metrics should be contributing to their tax penalties instead peddling influence on our politicians.
It is clear that many pharmaceuticals or prescriptions are taken orally and affect our gut biome. Our gut biome is the first line of processing the nutrients the human body ingests and effects many processes in the human body
This will entail actively supporting ideas to bolster and support the removal of chemicals from agriculture, incentivizing the prevention of disease through natural remedies, and supporting small farmers and regenerative farming techniques.
We propose legislation, policy, and initiatives to help change the current philosophy of the reactive medical industry. As an organization, we support the MAHA movement and implementing policy that will remove known poisons, carcinogenic chemicals, and other harmful methods and processes in our foods. We propose this effort is initially focused through agriculture, big pharma, and small farmers.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. champions substantial improvements in agriculture and medicines via his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, highlighting the necessity of regenerative farming practices, the prohibition of detrimental chemicals, and the endorsement of small farmers. He advocates for a transition to regenerative agriculture, emphasizing soil health, biodiversity, and sustainability, asserting that existing agricultural policies favor huge corporate farms to the detriment of small and medium-sized family farms. Kennedy asserts that these family farms are essential for a robust food economy. An essential component of his agenda is the eradication of harmful pesticides and chemicals from the food supply, which he claims are likely responsible for chronic health problems and environmental deterioration. He underscores the necessity of offering small farmers alternatives to detrimental agricultural techniques that jeopardize their economic sustainability and health, advocating for regulations that enable them to prosper without resorting to industrial farming models.
Alongside his agricultural initiatives, Kennedy has criticized the pharmaceutical sector, alleging that it prioritizes profits over public health. He seeks to amend health rules that permit pharmaceutical companies to take advantage of customers via exorbitant prescription pricing and dubious practices. The MAHA effort aims to address chronic diseases, which Kennedy attributes to inadequate nutrition and environmental contaminants intensified by agricultural methods and pharmacological interventions. His strategy encompasses the promotion of healthier lifestyles and the implementation of more clear food labels.
Kennedy's views largely correspond with Donald Trump's political agenda, especially with healthcare and agricultural issues. When his nomination is confirmed as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), he has indicated he will enact substantial reforms to combat the chronic disease epidemic in the U.S. This entails reforming dietary recommendations, diminishing subsidies for ultra-processed foods, and promoting augmented funding for sustainable agriculture efforts. His government would likely prioritize public health initiatives designed to educate Americans on nutrition and environmental contaminants, while advocating for the advantages of regenerative agriculture. Kennedy's strategy aims to consolidate various political groups behind common objectives pertaining to health and agricultural reform, with the intention of establishing a healthy food system that benefits both consumers and farmers.